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# Mahanidanasutta 18.1-6

Mahānidānasutta 18.1-6

- **Language:** Pāli

### [18.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.15.18.1)

‘Taṇhaṃ paṭicca pariyesanā’ti iti kho panetaṃ vuttaṃ, tadānanda, imināpetaṃ pariyāyena veditabbaṃ, yathā taṇhaṃ paṭicca pariyesanā.

> ‘Craving gives rise to searching’—that’s what I said. And this is a way to understand how this is so.  
> — The Great Discourse on Causation

### [18.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.15.18.2)

Taṇhā ca hi, ānanda, nābhavissa sabbena sabbaṃ sabbathā sabbaṃ kassaci kimhici, seyyathidaṃ—

> Suppose there were totally and utterly no craving for anyone anywhere.  
> — The Great Discourse on Causation

### [18.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.15.18.3)

kāmataṇhā bhavataṇhā vibhavataṇhā, sabbaso taṇhāya asati taṇhānirodhā api nu kho pariyesanā paññāyethā”ti?

> That is, craving for sensual pleasures, craving for continued existence, and craving for nonexistence. When there’s no craving at all, with the cessation of craving, would searching still be found?”  
> — The Great Discourse on Causation

### [18.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.15.18.4)

“No hetaṃ, bhante”.

> “No, sir.”  
> — The Great Discourse on Causation

### [18.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.15.18.5)

“Tasmātihānanda, eseva hetu etaṃ nidānaṃ esa samudayo esa paccayo pariyesanāya, yadidaṃ taṇhā.

> “That’s why this is the cause, source, origin, and reason of searching, namely craving.  
> — The Great Discourse on Causation

### [18.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.15.18.6)

Iti kho, ānanda, ime dve dhammā dvayena vedanāya ekasamosaraṇā bhavanti.

> And so, Ānanda, these two things meet at the two aspects of feeling.  
> — The Great Discourse on Causation

## Translations (4)

- [Большое наставление об обусловленности](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.15~ru-khantibalo.18.1) — Russian
- [Dugi govor o uzročnosti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.15~sr-brankokovacevic.18.1) — sr
- [The Great Discourse on Causation](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.15~en-sujato.18.1) — English
- [Die große Lehrrede über das Kausalprinzip](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.15~de-sabbamitta.18.1) — German

## Commentaries (1)

- [Sumaṅgalavilāsinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha!sumangalavilasini.15.112) — Buddhaghosa, Pāli

## Linked texts (4)

- [中阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.madhyamagama*zh-sanghadeva.97.47) — Classical Chinese
- [長阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirghagama*zh-buddhayasas.13.38) — Classical Chinese
- [人本欲生經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirgha.mahanidanasutra*zh-an-shigao.1.28) — Classical Chinese
- [大生義經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirgha.mahanidanasutra*zh-danapala.1.7) — Classical Chinese

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